State v. Lefevers’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “of a defendant where the defendant pulled into a gas station and was fueling his vehicle, and an officer pulled his vehicle behind the defendant without activating the lights, approached him, asked for identification, and questioned him about some suspicious activity the officer had observed. Overstreet, 724 N.E.2d at 664 . Similarly, in Lefevers, we held the defendant was not”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Powell v. State

2. “Examples of cireumstances that might indicate a seizure where the person did not actually attempt to leave the seene would be the threatening presence of several officers, the display of a weapon by an officer, some physical touching of the person of the citizen, or the use of language or tone of voice indicating that compliance with the officer's request might be compelled.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Powell v. State

3. “Although reasonable suspicion requires more than inchoate and unparticularized hunches, it is a less demanding standard than probable cause and requires considerably less proof than that required to establish wrongdoing by a preponderance of the evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Newell v. State